The 2015 Abha mosque bombing occurred when a suicide bomb attack killed 17 people at a mosque in the south-western Saudi Arabian city of Abha. Responsibility for the attack was claimed by a self-described affiliate of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria calling itself Hijaz Province of the Islamic State.
In August, one of its B-29s dropped a Little Boy uranium gun-type bomb on Hiroshima. Three days later a Fat Man plutonium implosion-type bomb was dropped by another B-29 on Nagasaki. The bombs immediately devastated their targets. Over the next 2 to 4 months, the acute effects of the atomic bombings killed 90,000–146,000 people in Hiroshima and 39,000–80,000 people in Nagasaki.